Teaching Fellow in Midwifery Birmingham City University BCU

Sharon has been a midwife for over 23 years and has experience in both acute and community settings working at three west midlands hospitals. Her career includes caring for women/birthing people who are labouring/birthing on obstetric led units and those choosing to birth on both alongside/standalone midwifery led units. During her career Sharon has also cared for a case load of women/families as a community midwife attending home births, as well as being part of a home birth team whereby attending the CEC was mandatory. Privately, Sharon offers hypnobirthing sessions and guidance on the use of aromatherapy to support choices for women seeking alternative options for their childbirth journey. Sharon has recently returned to a full-time academic role at Birmingham city university where she has taught students in both a substantive and visiting lecturer capacity for over ten years. Most recent clinical roles included a core birth centre/homebirth midwife, a secondment into a senior independent advocate role within the ICB and latterly a labour ward midwife and an interim MLU manager supporting staffing/operations of two units over two sites.

Sharon has always maintained working clinically whilst in educational and in senior NHS roles as she loves being ‘with woman’  Sharon maintains her CPD with trust/HEI training and independent learning such as a masters in academic leadership and becoming a professional midwifery advocate (PMA) where she facilitates clinical supervision for students and maternity staff as required. Sharon has taught on the faculty for baby lifeline for over 8 years where her passion for the CEC course has led to a QI project in HEI to set up interprofessional training days for student midwives/paramedics as demonstrated by the CEC course philosophy of MDT training to ensure safe care is delivered in home settings which is imperative for students to have imbedded in their training around childbirth in the pre-hospital settings.